Last December, Mexico and the United States signed an agreement to include the Latin American country in Artemis programaimed at returning people to the moon. From the Mexican government, they are proud to be part of this milestone and not just spectators like they were in 1969. To do this, they made their own program available to the project, consisting of missions. BELIEVE and BELIEVE 2. With them, the goal is to demonstrate the role that artificial intelligence in the colonization of our satellite. And lies in the fact that they mainly consist of sending a fleet of little robots who will be responsible for analyzing the selenite terrain in order to obtain both data of scientific interest and a comprehensive navigation map of the Moon.
The second stage, the most important, was supposed to go to the moon in June last year. However, it has suffered some delays due to which it is expected to release In the coming weeks.
As explained last February by Dr. Gustavo Medina Tankoresponsible for the LINX space instrument laboratory of the Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), the mission consists of 5 robots weighing less than 60 grams and each 12 centimeters in diameter. It will be artificial intelligence based on nature, as robots will work together, like bees in a hive. This is something that has never been done before on the Moon and could give very interesting results.
Artificial Intelligence for Complete Moon Exploration
Five robots will go to the moon in a container that will also play the role catapult run them after moon landing. In addition, the same container will serve communication center with UNAM. Combined, both the container and the robots weigh less than 608 grams, which Medina Tanko says would be equivalent to about three mobile phones.
Once the robots are placed on selenite terrain, all of their electronics will be less than two centimeters from the surface. Once there, they will begin study regolith, which is a layer of dust and rock covering the moon. Everyone has own sensors and radiation systems at different frequencies. Thus, they can work as a team and use artificial intelligence for a variety of purposes.
The robots will be in a container, which will also serve as a catapult and a communication center with the Earth.
It is known that they can detect certain minerals, but they will also analyze the land’s hostility in the face of future colonization and even measure celectric fields on the regolith.
Also, since we won’t have GPS on the Moon, the robots will be in charge of collecting data with which to develop navigation map. This would be useful for the astronauts who will make up the Artemis program in the future.
In short, Mexico wants to make the most of its opportunity to participate in the lunar race. And he made a big bet on this by introducing artificial intelligence onto the stage. So if you haven’t heard of hive missionswrite his name. Surely they still have many interesting surprises to present to us.
Source: Hiper Textual
